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Trumping   Listen
verb
Trump  v. t.  To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.


Trump  v. t.  
1.
To trick, or impose on; to deceive. (Obs.) "To trick or trump mankind."
2.
To impose unfairly; to palm off. "Authors have been trumped upon us."
To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.


Trump  v. i.  To blow a trumpet. (Obs.)


Trump  v. i.  (past & past part. trumped; pres. part. trumping)  To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.





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"Trumping" Quotes from Famous Books



... fairest-minded of friends, the most comfortable of companions; while the other was an outlaw, a half-heathen, a lover of but one thing in this world, the joyous god of Chance. Pierre was essentially a gamester. He would have extracted satisfaction out of a death-sentence which was contingent on the trumping of an ace. His only honour was ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... comfortable of companions; while the other was an outlaw, a half-heathen, a lover of but one thing in this world, the joyous god of Chance. Pierre was essentially a gamester. He would have extracted satisfaction out of a death-sentence which was contingent on the trumping of an ace. His only honour was the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... though, he recovered himself, and burst into a horrible sardonic laugh. Then he said, in tones full of the bitterest irony: "A conspiracy, is it? Well done, doctor! You think to reconcile me with this wretched girl by trumping up this story that I have been for two years a dupe of her filial piety. It's clumsy, doctor, and is a total failure. ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne
... was displaying with childish satisfaction, the new suits in which a tailor of the Capital was trying to disguise him. When Elena wished to accompany him to Buenos Aires, he would wriggle out of it, trumping up some absorbing business. "No; ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... the hope on which his heart was set. There had been many times in the past months when he had said that he must go no further, and as often as he had taken this stand he had yielded it, upon this or that excuse, which he was aware of trumping up. It was part of the complication that he should he unconscious of the injury he might be doing to some one besides his family and himself; this was the defect of his diffidence; and it had come to him in a pang for the first time when his mother said that she would not have the Laphams ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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